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With hearty herdsmen in puffing pursuit of nubile nymphs...
Homosexuality is something of a tradition in backward Yemen, where Bedouin herdsmen roam the rocky hills for months on end with only each other and their animals for company. Male brothels flourish in San'a, the capital, and the late Imam Ahmad, who ruled the country for 14 years before his death in 1962, established an international reputation for overzealous camaraderie...
Homage to Aristotle. Now electricity has begun to flow, and the factory is in limited production. Its ultimate annual goal: 72,500 tons of aluminum worth $30 million, only 15% of which will be consumed in Greece. Already the plant has changed life for many of the local herdsmen and fishermen. After testing 8,000 of them for technical aptitudes, the company hired 800, is housing them for as little as $5.33 a month in a new town that boasts a well-stocked shopping center and a six-grade school. Though the company is exploiting assets that were unknown...
...Negroes are little more than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites and the blood of cattle. The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot...
...prejudice to overcome. Being white, Ruth was suspect. Moreover, a set of twins, born two years later, seemed to spell disaster to Bamangwato witch doctors. But Ruth-often wearing a silk blouse and tight white pants-moved through the mud-hut villages dispensing good will, wiping blood from injured herdsmen with a lace handkerchief, and fighting for seven years to build a clinic. Eventually she became known as Mwa Rona (Our Mother), and the antiwhite fears of the tribesmen faded...